soss-
the stem of soss n.1 used attributively in a few combs., with the sense ‘fat, dirty, slatternly, etc.’, as † soss-bangle, † soss-belly (see quots.).
| 1554 Bale Declar. Bonner's Articles xxix. 113 b, What is thy idolatrous mas and lowsye Latine seruice, thou sos⁓belly swilbol, but the very draf of Antichriste. 1691 Ray S. & E. Co. Words 115 A Sosse-bangle, a sluttish, slattering, lazy Wench; a Rustic word, only used by the vulgar. [Hence soss-brangle in Grose (1788).] |